
A conversation with David Beveridge, narrator of volume 2 of The Life of William Faulkner
What goes into an audiobook: the commitment, the performance, the technical details and equipment, and why, in this case, it matters that we hear Faulkner’s voice.
19 Mar 202236min

Hemingway’s Widow: A Conversation with Timothy Christian about his new biography of Mary Hemingway
A conversation with Timothy Christian, who provides new insight into the Hemingway marriage, and into the way biographies are constructed and managed between biographers and their sources.
5 Mar 20227h 37min

A conversation with Kathleen Brady about her biography of the saints of Assisi: Francis and Clare
Learn how Kathleen Brady did Plutarch proud and managed, as well, to write a biography for our times.
26 Feb 202244min

Another biography for Black History Month.
The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, a well composed biography by Alicia K. Jackson, published by University Press of Mississippi.
23 Feb 20227min

A conversation with James McGrath Morris, author of Tony Hillerman: A Life
A wide ranging talk about Hillerman and Morris’s other subjects and how they fit into his conception of biography.
19 Feb 202245min

A Biography of the Day for Black History Month
A biography of the first Black archeologist that tells us a good deal not only about Black history but about the enticements of biography.
17 Feb 202212min

An unusual group biography: The Psychologies of Political Exile: From Ovid to the Dalai Lama
A talk with prolific biographer and psychoanalyst, Jay Martin, about exile, displaced peoples, and why it should matter to you.
12 Feb 202248min